The Rise Of Investable Public Benefit Corporations

Summary

  • Benefit corporations are a new form of business and increasing in number on the market.
  • Similar to ESG metrics, these companies often take it many steps further in regards to positivity.
  • The business structure allows some profits to be syphoned away towards beneficial endeavors, without investors crying-out about poor practice.

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A Growing Trend Outside of ESG

Public Benefit Corporations are a new range of corporate entities that are for-profit companies that can be publicly traded, but differ from other corporations in that shareholders are not the

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